Meditation
from the work of the Tibetan (Djwhal Khul),
through Alice A. Bailey

1. Early in experience, after the attainment of the highest the lower nature
has to offer, man begins to meditate. Disorderly at first are his attempts, and sometimes
several incarnations may go by in which the Higher Self only forces the man to think, and
seriously to meditate at rare and separate intervals. More frequently come the occasions
of withdrawing within, until there arises for the man several lives given to mystic
meditation and aspiration, culminating usually in a life given entirely to it...

Now comes to all of you the most important series of
lives, to which the previous points of culmination, were but stepping stones. In the lives
immediately ahead of those upon the Path, will come final achievement through the
instrumentality of the ordered occult mediation, based on law. For some few may come
attainment in this life or the next; for others, shortly in other lives. (1, p.12)

2. The main function of meditation is to bring the lower
instrument into such a condition of receptivity and vibratory response, that the Ego, or
Solar Angel, can use it, and produce specific results. (2-998).

3. Meditation is dangerous and unprofitable to the man who
enters upon it without the basis of a good character and of clean living...Meditation is
dangerous where there is wrong motive, such as the desire for personal growth and for
spiritual powers, for it produces, under these conditions only a strengthening of the
shadows in the vale of illusion and a one-pointedness that may lead to an unbalanced
development. One-pointedness is a virtue, but it should be one-pointedness of purpose and
aim, and not that which develops one sole line of method, to the exclusion of all others.

The dangers of meditation are largely the dangers of our
virtues, and therein lies much of the difficulty. They are largely the dangers of a fine
mental concept that runs ahead of the capacity of the lower vehicles, especially of the
dense physical. Aspiration, concentration, and determination are necessary virtues, but if
used without discrimination, and without a sense of time in evolution, they may lead to a
shattering of the physical vehicle that will delay all progress for some one particular
life. Have I made my point clear? I seek but to bring out the absolute necessity for the
occult student to have a virile common sense for one of his basic qualities coupled with a
happy sense of proportion, that leads to due caution, and an approximation of the
necessary method to the immediate need. To the man, therefore, who undertakes
wholeheartedly the process of occult meditation, I would say with all conciseness:

a. Know thyself.
b. Proceed slowly
and with caution.
c. Study effects.
d. Cultivate the
realization that eternity is long, & that which is slowly built up endures forever.
e. Aim at
regularity.
f. Realize always
that the true spiritual effects are to be seen in the exoteric life of service.
g. Remember
likewise, that psychic phenomena are no indication of a successful meditation. The world
will see the effects, & be a better judge than the student himself. Above all, the
Master will know, for the results on causal levels will be apparent to Him long before man
himself is conscious of any progress. (1-92/4)

5. The aim should be the development of the habit of meditation all the day
long, and the living in the higher consciousness till that consciousness is so stable that
the lower mind, desire, and the physical elementals, become so atrophied and starved
through lack of nourishment, that the threefold lower nature becomes simply the means
whereby the Ego (soul) contacts the world for purposes of helping the race. (1-145).

6. For all these troubles, forms of meditation may be
found, which -- if followed in time -- will eventually dissipate them. The fundamental
fact to be grasped here, is that only when the pupil has an intelligent appreciation of
the trouble or troubles affecting him, only when he has the ability to conscientiously
follow the imparted formulas, and only when his object is unselfish, will he be trusted
with these forms. When his object is to equip himself for service, when he aims only at
the acquirement of healthy vehicles for the better carrying out of the plan of the Great
Ones, and when he desires not to escape disease for his own personal benefit, only then
will the formulas work in connection with the egoic (soul) consciousness. (1-161)

7. Meditation ... is the means of bringing to the unit
under development the capacity which will produce:
a. abstraction, or liberation from form
b. Creative power
c. Direction of
energy, through an act of the will
d. Future
constructive activity

By means of meditation, a man finds freedom from the
delusion of the senses, and their vibratory lure; he finds his own positive center of
energy and becomes consciously able to use it; he becomes, therefore aware of his, real
Self, functioning freely and consciously beyond the planes of sense; he enters into the
plans of the greater Entity within Whose radiatory capacity he has a place; he can then
consciously proceed to carry out those plans as he can grasp them at varying stages of
realization; and he becomes aware of essential unity ... Freedom to work on any Path must
be gained by occult meditation; freedom to escape beyond the ring-pass-not is also thus
attained. (2-746/7).

8. One of the objectives of the daily meditation, is to
enable the brain and mind to vibrate in unison with the soul as it seeks "in
meditation deep" to communicate with its reflection.(3-74)

9. Meditation involves the living of a one-pointed life
always and everyday... This process of ordered meditation, when carried forward over a
period of years, and supplemented by meditative living and one-pointed service, will
successfully arouse the entire system, and bring the lower man under the influence and
control of the spiritual man...When you, as an individual are endeavoring to "build
the new man in Christ", which will be an expression of your true spiritual self,
meditation is, as you well know, your best agent; but the meditation process must be
accomplished by creative work, or else it is purely mystical, and though not futile, is
nevertheless negative in creative results.(4-202)

10. "Let all students make up their minds in this day
of emergency and of rapid unfolding opportunity to sacrifice all they have to the helping
of humanity... The urgency of the hour is upon us, and I call upon all of you whom I am
seeking to help, to join the strenuous effort of the Great Ones. They are working day and
night in an effort to relieve humanity. I offer to you opportunity and I tell you that you
are needed -- even the very least of you. I assure you that groups of students, working in
unison and with deep and unfaltering love for each other, can achieve significant
results." (2-639)

Excerpted as indicated from the following books by the
Tibetan, through Alice A. Bailey, Lucis Publishing Company:
1. Letters on Occult Meditation
2. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
3. A Treatise on White Magic
4. Discipleship in the New Age

"For disciples, such as
those I...attempt to teach, there is no retiring from the world.
There is no condition of physical peace and of quiet wherein the
soul may be invoked and in which work—potent in results—may be
achieved in the calm of silence and the rest of what the Hindu calls
samadhi—complete detachment from the calls of the body and the
emotions. The work has to go forward in clamour. The point of peace
must be found in the midst of riot. Wisdom must be attained in the
very midst of intellectual turmoil and the work of cooperation with
the Hierarchy on the inner side of life must proceed amidst the
devastating racket of modern life in the great cities. Such is your
problem and such is my problem as I seek to aid you."
Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. I http://lucistrust.org:8081/obooks/?q=node/135

Into the New World my first message.
You who gave the Ashram,
And you who gave two lives,
Proclaim.
Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps.
Reader, if you have not grasped — read again,
after a while.
The predestined is not accidental,
The leaves fall in their time.
And winter is but the harbinger of spring.
All is revealed; all is attainable.
I will cover you with My shield,
if you but tend to your labors.
I have spoken.

There is no salvation
surer than that through devotion. One can
forgive much where there is unswerving devotion.
The man who is devoted in heart can be relied
upon. It is cause for rejoicing when Hierarchy
is upheld by devotion. At present it is
especially needed. If yesterday's confusion
seemed enormous, what can one say of tomorrow's?
I have already prepared you for the growth ofArmageddon,
and you know that the black wings of darkness
will not withstand the Fiery Sword. Be not
astonished, the Battle increases!
Agni Yoga:
Fiery World I,605.

Excerpts from some of the books by
the Master Djwhal Khul (also known as the Tibetan and the Master DK)

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Agni Yoga Teachings regarding
sexIf we compare two
individuals, of whom one dissipates the vital substance while
the other consciously conserves it, we will be amazed at how
much more sensitive the spiritual apparatus of the second
becomes. The quality of his labors becomes entirely different,
and the quantity of his projects and ideas multiplies. The
centers of the solar plexus and brain are being heated, as it
were, by an invisible fire.